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| Technical Editing (4th Edition)
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Edition: 4
Author: Carolyn D. Rude
Publisher: Longman
Release Date: 2005-08-06
ISBN-10: 032133082X
ISBN-13: 9780321330826
List Price: $88.00
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This market-leading text has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent changes in technology, workplace practices and the global marketplace. The book progresses from concepts and basic copyediting to comprehensive editing, management and production issues. Coverage now includes a new chapter on client projects. Technical Editing takes a comprehensive approach to editing and defining editorial responsibility in terms of information design and the overall effectiveness of a document in helping readers understand and complete tasks. Expanding the concept of editing from a narrow focus on sentence-level revisions for correctness, this book encourages students to think about the effects of word choices, sentences, organization and design. Students learn that the measure of a "good" document is in part outside that document, in the document's "match" to the users' needs and the author's goals. The textbook with its supplementary Web site and instructor's manual offers a complete editing course, including materials for daily workshops and discussion and longer documents for graded assignments.In a password-protected portion of the Web site, instructors can also retrieve illustrations of edited versions as well as suggested responses to daily activities. Both focused and flexible, Technical Editing includes assignments carefully crafted to develop specific editing competencies and modular chapters that allow instructors to adapt the text to meet their own course goals and methods.
Great condition for this textbook.
| Customer Rating: | | I needed this book for a college course. I was worried I wouldn't receive it in time for some assignments, but it came lickety-split, as they say. Thanks! |
Required Textbook
| Customer Rating: | | This was a required text for my tech writing class. Decent book. Not life-changing. |
A solid reference or textbook
| Customer Rating: | Carolyn Rude's Technical Editing (fourth edition) is a solid, comprehensive volume equally suitable as a textbook or a desktop reference. It attempts to support the writer or editor of technical prose in the collaborative process of shaping rough text into a polished and accurate final product. Its scope is ambitious, ranging from exercises in proofreading hard copy using standard markup symbols to explorations of the legal and ethical ramifications of technical prose.
I like the way that the author captures the real-world constraints that editors face: there is never enough time, content will never be perfect, and tradeoffs frequently need to be made. Just as important as his or her attention to details and standards are an editor's ability to compromise and work collaboratively with writers. In this regard, Dr. Rude's book stands in for an editing coach.
I am not familiar with the earlier versions of Dr. Rude's book, so I don't know when the sections related to online editing and website editing were added. Sometimes the grafting of this content seems a bit clumsy; likewise, some of the content on laying out text for a typesetter seems dated. Even so, this book offers good and lasting value.
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Guidelines, not Rudes (Rules)
| Customer Rating: | Dr. Rude was one of my technical writing professors. I recall using an early addition of this book when I was taking her class, identifying and suggesting edits as part of the class work...an instructive process. I have always found her guidelines to be clear and user-friendly. I do not agree with one reviewer's example of "handicap", as Dr. Rude was using that as an example within the admonition for caution, a sophisticated concept that was perhaps lost on the reviewer at the time.
This book is agreat reference and will be very useful for technical editors in any branch of the profession. |
Great book
| Customer Rating: | I disagree with the bad review of this book. I believe it outlines principles well and is also a great reference tool.
One side note, this book is for technical editing. Technical writing is different from the type of writing done in English courses. |
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